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UNITED STATES WALTER OINIEEL, 0E SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA.

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Ainplioation filed. March 7, was. serial 1%. 623,313.

T 0 all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that l, VVALTER ONnnL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Shelbyville, in the county of Shelby and State of lndiana,have invented a new and useful Bottle Refrigerator, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in refrigerators, and particularlyto refrigerators for cooling bottles containing beverages and the like.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a beverage bottlerefrigerator which may be so constructed as to permit ready removal ofthe cooled bottles therefrom without opening the ice chamber of therefrigerator to the atmosphere each time a bottle is removed from therefrigerator.

Another object of m invention is to rov-ide a beverage bottlbrefrigerator 'rom which the bottles may be removed without the necessityof the dispenser feeling around through a large mass olice to find abottle of the particular bevera desired.

l or the purpose of disclosing my invention. l have illustrated oneembodiment thereof in the accornpanying drawings, in which,

Fig. i is a perspective view of a refrigorator embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the refrigerator shown inFig. l

Fig. 3 is a sectional view talren on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. l is a detail perspective of the bottle removing clip, and

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of a modified :lorm of myrefrigerator.

the structure illustrated, the container 1 is provided with "a bottlechamber 2 having a rear cover 3 and a front cover 1- provided withsuitable openings 5 through which the bottles may be inserted in the"chamber and through which the bottles may be'removed from the chamber.'lhese openings are closely adjacent the two ends of the chamber and theopenings-are maintained closed by suitable closure caps ll.

Above the bottle chamber there is provided an ice chamber 7, the openbottom of which terminates in the bottle chambenthe front and rear wallsof the ice chamber being provided with downwardly extending lips 8 and 9which form, in effect, a continuation of the front and rear walls of theice chamher and project below the under side or the top walls 3 and 4,ol the bottle container.

Arranged within the ice chamber 7 is an ice basket 10 which may besupported therein in any suitable manner, as by having the top side rods11 embedded at each end in the side walls of the container. Access maybe had to the ice chamber 7 through a top opening 12 which is arrangedtobe sealed by a cap 13 screw-threaded into the walls of the opening 12 sothat, when the cap is in position, the top of the ice chamber is sealedt s under side or the top or closure portions 3 and d.

'lhe bottom in oil the bottle chamber is preferably inclined toward thefront, or delivery end oi the chamber and the chamber is provided withsuitable bottle guides ll preferably in the storm rods having theirfront and rear ends embedded in the front and rear walls of the chamber.gnideways :lor the bottles -formed by these guides l? are beneath andcoincide with the openings-5 so that the bc'- ties are deposited in thereceiving op they will drop into a guide-way and, e to the inclinedbottom 16, the bottles be fed by gravity to a point the openings at thefront end or the rel? orator. bottles are ad ted to a raised platforms18 on l their bottoms will be clear or the hot I the container. in orderto assist gravity feeding the bottles forward, each snideway is providedwith a weighted rol adapted to be placed behind last o row or bottles,and roller is preferably connected to the rear wall of the bottlechamber by a chain or cable 2Q so that roller may be retracted.

For lilting the bottles out or the chamber, l re'l'erably provide abottle clip 21 at the ront end of each gnidewayj, which is provided witha 'lorlr 22 arranged to engage the neclr of the bottle beneath top beadthereof and the handle 23 orthe i keep for a comparatively long period.Due

to the fact that thelip 9 projects below the end of the vent pipe 14 thewater level may be maintained in what may be termed the delivery well ofthebottle chamber, well above the top of the bottle so thatall thebottles in the bottle chamber will be well submerged; in the liquid. Dueto the fact that heated liquid tends to rise, as the cooling 1i uid'becomes slightly" heated, when the c osure members 6 are opened toextract a bottle,'there is a thermo-syphon circulating eilect caused inthe bottle and ice chamber so that the heated liquid will tend to riseto come in contact with the ice and be immediately chilled, and thebottles will" be submerged in the coolest liquid at all times.

ll claim as my invention:

1. A bottle refrigerator, having a bottle chamber provided with adelivery opening therein and adapted to contain cooling liquid and anair tight ice chamber adja cent said bottle chamber and communicatingtherewith,.said ice chamber being adapted to be closed to the atmosphereby a supply of liquid in said bottle chamber.

*2. A bottle refrigerator, including a bottle chamber arranged tocontain cooling liquid, and having a delivery opening therein, an icechambercommunicating with said bottle chamber and adapted to receiveliquid from said bottle chamber, said ice chamber being closed to theatmosphere by the liquid in said bottle chamber, and means for feedingthe bottles in said bottle chamber toward the delivery opening therein.

A bottle refrigerator, having a bottle chamber provided With a deliveryopening, and an ice chamber having its bottom opening into said bottlechamber, said chambers being arranged to contain a liquid-cooling mediumwhich seals the bottom of the ice chamber to the atmosphere. t. A bottlerefrigerator including a bottle chamber having an inclined bottom forreceiving the bottles and provided with a top opening at the deepest endof said chamber, and an ice chamber above said bottle chamber and havingits bottom opening into said bottle chamber and adapted to be sealed tothe atmosphere by the cool liquid contained in said bottle chamber, andan ice receptacle arranged in said ice chamber.

5. A bottle refrigerator, including a bot-r tle chamber having adelivery openlng therein and having adjacentsaid opening a bottle well,means for delivering a bottle into said well when a bottle has beenremoved therefrom, and an ice chamber arranged above saidbottle chamberand having its bottom opening into the bottle chain.-

ber, said ice chamber and bottle chamber arranged to receive a coolingliquid and said ice chamber being sealed to the atmos phere by saidcooling liquid.

In 'witness whereof, I, WALTER ONEEL, have hereunto set my hand atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 5th day of March, A. D. one thousand ninehundred and twenty-three.

WALTER ONEEL.

